30x30 Day 4 Ive got the World in the Palm of My Hands

First of all I want to thank my friend Karen for taking these shots of me, they have been the best and funniest shoot I’ve done so far for 30x30. She knows when to tell me to suck it in and stick it out. I know she is watching my blog and my 30x30 outfits for fun accessorizing ideas.

I tried to talk her in to doing her own 30x30 but she said she can’t accessorize well and there wouldn’t be much change about her mostly black wardrobe. I wonder what she wears to funerals? Red?

The following pictures were taken in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This park is famous for it participation in the 1939/1940 World’s Fair.  It is also the location for the tennis US Open which is played in Arthur Ashe Stadium. It was also mentioned in the Great Gatsby as the “Valley of Ashes.” Citi Field where the NY Mets play is also connected to the park at one end. I also used this park in my Day 3 photo shoot.

(H&M black shirtdress, blue tights, grey legwarmer, black ballet flats, F21 burgundy sweater, Lands End blue down puffer jacket, beige scarf from NYC vendor)

 

Both of these shots were normal and unedited, the basic digital camera changed the colors making them look different.

May I suggest that you should always take a second camera with you because you never know when you’ll have a dead battery. I unfortunately had a dead battery but thank God I had my regular camera that I always carry in my purse.

Karen was saying my outfit was totally 80’s with the blue leggings and legwarmers. I say…Whatever ♥

30x30 Clothing Update.

While putting some outfits together, I realized there was a few technical problems with my choices.

These pants are kinda too big so I switched to a blazer, which works for Everybody Everywear.

I needed something a bit warmer than the sheer short sleeve shirt.

These pants are a little to tight and I just bought these other ones the day before 30x30 started so I didn’t get them in time for pictures.

30x30 “Day Lazy” Grey Sweatpants, No Makeup.

While technically today is the 5th day of the month I do not have an outfit, I am actually wearing sweatpants and a holey tee shirt and my fuzzy slippers. Why? Well I don’t plan to go out of the house. Its been a coffee and sweatpants kinda day.

Its been raining of and on all day, so I decided to stay in and lounge. I finished the new Harry Potter movie and I watched The King’s Speech.

The Harry Potter movie depresses me as it was the darkest movie yet and there was a lot of deaths in Harry’s life. On the other hand The King’s Speech was amazing. Colin Firth did an amazing job as usual and Geoffrey Rush just wowed me. I also got nostalgic as I got to see Elizabeth and Darcy together again, I mean Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. They both were in A&E’s made for TV series Pride and Prejudice as Elizabeth and Darcy. I would definitely recommend seeing The King’s Speech.

The other day I went to Michael’s Arts and Crafts and picked up a few things including this:

a paintable Snoopy bank.

Here's my results:

As the paint dries I realize it needs a touch up here and there. Now that I have this it puts my coin banks at 4.

With the exception of the Snoopy bank, they are all full of coins. I guess a trip to Coinstar is in order.

Well thanks to my bootleg movie guy I have more movies to watch.

Why should I pay $13 to see a movie when I can watch them in the comforts of my house in my grey sweat pants? Whatever ♥

30x30 Day 3 Here Come The Men in Black

 

I should of worn black and my Ray Bans for this location. It’s the place were the aliens kept the spaceships in the movie Men in Black. This place is in my city and almost in my backyard if you consider 3 miles away your backyard. I technically don’t have a backyard because I live in an apartment. I love love this structure and its uniqueness, there is nothing like it and when I see it when I’m not in town it makes me think of home.

Here is an interesting post about it in Stickers and Donuts

Today by the way was a great day, I manage to capture what I wanted. I had so many pictures to choose from and the location turned out great no one around for gawking. I thought of a great thing to say when people ask what I'm doing, I tell them I am a location scout for a fashion magazine. I haven’t really had to explain but I’m gonna go for it. There are a lot of nosy people around.

Let me get on with the show.

 

(H&M blue button-up, skinny pants, ruffle front shirt, Express grey hooded drape cardigan, unknown boots and belt, NYC street vendor scarf, Target sunglasses, Armani men's watch, gold hoop earrings, DIY ruffled necklace)

 

 

There you have it. Day 3

Now to think of what to wear tomorrow, I heard its going to be close to 40 degrees, Yay! It calls for a tunic with tights, ooo maybe I go crazy with the tights color.

I’m so dangerous. Not! Whatever ♥

30x30 Day 2 Happy Ground Hog day!

 

So apparently the Punxsutawney Groundhog didn’t see his shadow today so spring should be coming early. Good. The weather in NYC is getting annoying, seriously. I love the winter cold and few snows and all but this winter has been ridiculous.

Today it sleeted all day and my car was a solid block of ice this morning and you needed ice skates to go down a sidewalk it was so icy. But sometime in the afternoon it warmed up enough to make the snow on the ground a  slushy mess.

Now normally I don’t complain about this but I forgot my hat at home today so my hair got wet and so it got frizzy. Frizzy never happens to me but the combo of the sleet/rain mix and the static my hair was well fuzzy.

 

                                      

 

(H&M leopard blouse and grey sweater, Target dark denim skinny jeans, Madden Girl tan boots, Handmade necklace, earrings and bracelet)

(F21 cross ring, diamond band and Tommy watch)

My father secretly wanted to be involved

(Wrangler jeans, navy blue collared button-up shirt, Lands End Jacket, leather gloves, grey hat and black boots)

Puddles, puddles, puddles everywhere.

Tomorrow there is sun in the forecast so hopefully the weather will be good.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Oh eff enough of this. Whatever ♥

30X30 Day 1, Am I Really Gonna Do This?

 

I’m not mad, I'm frustrated.

My frustration isn't coming from 30x30, but from the weather and me being tired and cranky.

First of all NYC has been having the craziest winter, today it snowed, sleeted, iced, rained, snowed then iced again. I had to wake up at 5 am to shovel the snow off my car which wouldn’t be so bad but I couldn’t sleep at all last night. But the weather fouled up my plans for a decent photo shoot.

I have to take my shots in the afternoon because there isn't light when I go to work in the morning, but today I got home late due to the weather. My car was covered inch thick of ice, so I had to scrap that off to get home. So by the time I got home there was practically no light for any good indoor shots.

So after trying to make it work indoors I ran outside not caring how nosey my neighbors are and took some shots.

The outdoor shots would have been ok except my frustration of the day shows on my face.

So with out further ado.

 

The original idea for the outfit, accessorized with belt and chain necklace

You can see in the first picture that I accessorize my outfit with a belt and a chain necklace. Well I scratched the belt because its too big to wear at the waist it kept falling down all day at work and the chain I never ended up wearing at all because I already had a necklace on that was much more simpler. Coco Chanel said "always take off one thing (accessory, non important clothing item) before you leave the house"

 

(MNG cardigan. H&M striped shirt, Old Navy jeans, H&M ballet flats, H&M necklace and unseen bracelet, Lands End Coat)

 

See a sort of smile. It was getting chilly and the sidewalk I was on was a sheet of ice so basically I skated to my location.

Ok enough of this, I need to plan tomorrows outfit. Oh you should see my face now, I managed to knock my tripod down camera and all, not once but twice. The only thing that broke was a knob on the tripod, it will live.

Oh I made this today

I better have a better day tomorrow. Whatever ♥

Why I am doing 30x30

Apparently there is controversy over this 30x30, but for what. Seriously? I mean if someone doesn’t like something they don’t have to participate.

But there are always two sides to the story. Perhaps though they are friends with others who are doing the 30x30 and don’t want their inboxes clogged with updates to blogs about 30x30. I can see that being a nuisance. But maybe they think its to exclusive like a popular clique in high school or something to that matter. See I don’t have that many followers, although I want more and I figured besides getting myself out of the jeans, some ole top and a fleece I could make a few friends that like to do the same thing I have been doing for years.

See I work in a garage with dirty old trucks and mechanics. I love them and my job but seriously I'm getting into a rut. See I don’t have a special wardrobe that I am required to wear to work, who am I going to impress? I just need to at least look presentable and be comfortably safe at the same time.

Before I worked where I work now I wore suits and dress clothes. And how I miss my heels, skirts, suit jackets and dress pants that made me look slim. My job now those things wouldn’t be practical, I can’t wear heels or skirts because my job requires me to walk out into a construction yard and a mechanics garage and it would be unsafe and clothing like that would just get too dirty.

Back to my point. I am doing 30x30 because I am still a woman who cares about her look and I feel that at my tender age of 31 that its time that I should be dressing for my age and thinking about what suits me. At age 20 I could get away with anything, I could wear tight low cut clothes, loud colors, experiment with styles and not worry about what fitted me because I was in shape. Now I am trying to develop a style that I can work with for the next stage of my life. So you can say I'm in a transitional stage. I don’t know how other women are around my age but I just hope I’m not the only one going through the transition.

So now before I start dressing in mismatched, holey, dirty, ill fitting, and masculine looking clothes I am participating in 30x30. I will choose options that will be appropriate for my age, make me feel good about my body and most of all get me out of the complacent style I have been doing.

Now for your viewing pleasure a few pictures of me throughout the years. Please don’t laugh, ok you can because I am!

                                      

I was about 19 here.I still have the jacket and I was wearing platform booties. I was about a size 1. I totally wish I could go back to this body frame. The whole outfit except the shoes is Guess.

                       

My 20th birthday. I think I still own the shoes. And I was wearing pantyhose here. gross. I was at work here and hose was required. This outfit probably came from where I was working at the time which was Macy’s.

                   

                                    

Ok I think I was 21 or 22 here. Wearing some sort of mini skirt with clunky platform heels. I wish again I had this body now as it was a size 1 or 2. I have nothing of this outfit except the watch, though I wish I had the skirt and that it would fit my body now. I still have the legs to rock it.

                                       

I was 26 here. I still own these shoes, Issac Mizrahi for Target. And the velvet  blazer is vintage and I still own it. I also own the drum stick and the leather obi belt. I call this the groupie look yet cool enough to hang in the East Village. My friends band had a gig that I went to.

There I let it all out. Me back in the day. Me when I didn’t have a real care in the world, my body was in great shape and it didn’t really matter what I wore.

On a different note I had to make a few changes to my wardrobe choices as the other choices had a few issues. I only changed out a shirt and a pair of jeans.

Me. Whatever ♥

30 for 30 February 2011

I am finally starting the 30 for 30 challenge that I happened to spy on Kendi Everyday’s blog. I have mentioned it in a post back in December and now Kendi is starting a new season so I decided I want to do it.

Compared to what I see on the other bloggers sites my clothing choices aren't as fancy, I don’t have any skirts or heels. But I work in an environment where I cant. But it just might prove a point where any wardrobe can be remixed.

So without further delay here is what I have decided to use for my 30 for 30 remixes.

So there you have it. My 30 for 30, hopefully I can keep up with the outfits. I cant wait till February 1st where I cant test out my first outfit. I am also looking forward to what other bloggers are going to come up with. Wish me luck.

By the way since NYC has been getting so much snow, I will have to wear my snow boots to shovel and to get back and forth to work but I am not going to count them since they really don’t go with anything in general. So if you don’t say anything we can keep it a secret.   Whatever ♥